Judge finds maverick transportation blacklisted driver,

I have been driving the last 3 years on a leaky power steering system. Just gota add some lucas every 3-6 months. its a pretty slow leak, Well acualy that lucas does a pretty good job. Also even if you lost hydrahlic pressure instantly your still going to have steering. Well if you have any arm muscles you are still going to have steering.

When the driver refused to drive it back to the lot after it went out of service (and it went out of service becouse he failed to get it fixed withen 15 days of the get it fixed ticket). Maverick should have sent a roadside or a tow truck out to resolve the problem with the truck (or what ever there contract states for repairs). At any rate they should have got the truck back into service, and then ordered him to drive it back, or face the penalties.

So legaly, and this is why the judge rulled in favor of the driver. Maverick did not procede correctly in the handling of this.

Moraly, they are both guilty. maverick for not going the xtra mile to help one of there drivers who was in a fataility accident cope with it. (sounds like all they did was give the driver a month off, and not bother him during that time). And then at the end of it. When the driver could not cope with it, Maverick instead of just eating the cost of sending anouther driver out and bringing the truck back and to blacklist the driver. And the driver is guilty for not getting past his personal issues and fullfilling his contract oblications with a company. As I am pretty sure the bottom of his contract did not state rendured void if personal reasons appear.

When you really step back and look at this. It really gives maverick a bad name. It would appear they dont really care about there drivers. Becouse push all the legal stuff aside, The reason the driver did not bring the truck back, He was probly too emotional to drive again. You would think after a fatality accident, Maverick might step up and say they would go ahead and bring the truck back for the driver.

 

OH you had Ralph? I had Bubba and man did Bubba sound funny!
And so did Mary and Sophie and Jim and shirley, Steve with his studder but I'll admit Rosie had a voice you could listen to all day long!
And yes banging my head against the desk didn't seem to help matters either! I just couldn't get to the gun as it was next to the bed!

 

Out of fear that you will be put on hold to start over with someone else...

 

They should have some of the brass at DAC _doing time_ in prison for all the damage they have done to innocent drivers for the last 25 years, IMO.

My .02 cents.

 

Having the cops haul them away in handcuffs, would be a nice thing to see, for once.

How about that accountability for their actions thingy these crooks at DAC forgot all about?

Fry em'!

My .02 cents.

 

I certainly do hope no one thinks I am "standing up" for DAC, because I am not. I am merely saying that DAC is a "holding place" of information sent to them by an employer, then they (DAC) turns around and due to subscription sales, they release that information to an inquiring company from the other trucking (or other) employer.

Yes, no doubt, DAC has false information on file for tens of thousands of drivers, but by itself, DAC (now HireRight) does NOT ADD anything to one's report, and they DO by the way, cap off information that is 7 years old, as they should. This I know, because information about me was capped, then removed.

The concept of DAC from the original inception, by the man who "made it happen", was to be a clearing house for companies to keep on file so that other subscribers, and you HAVE TO BE a subscriber to get information, can obtain files on drivers from previous employers.

It's the "LACK" of checks and balances that are with-in the DAC files that have caused so much grief to so many, as all any subscriber has to do is "say what they want to say", and DAC accepts this. Until the Fed's get involved, and I do not see this happening, DAC WILL CONTINUE to supply all the false information, they are simply holding.

Maybe perhaps a "Class Action" suit brought against HireRight/DAC by maybe the OOIDA or the ATA or any other organization will make corrections, but until there is a "band of brother's", this will NOT take place.

Again, remember in other threads where it's been said time after time, we all talk the talk, but don't walk the walk, as we as driver's simply do NOT get involved or stick together, leaving "someone else to handle the problem"......and then of course, no one else helps us.....we are our own problem.......

So in closing, i do not appreciate DAC anymore than anyone else does, but it's here, and it ain't going away too soon. I mean after all, they had the "original owner (the inventor if you will), then he sells it to USIS, then THEY SELL IT to HireRight......

Who's going to be the next "new owner" of DAC in a few short years.....??????

Oh yeah, one more sickening thought.......DAC....IS NOT the only background checking company out there.....

I was refused a job at Chrysler due to a problem "found" on a background check done by "STERLING"...........who the "F" is Sterling....???? I didn't know them or EVER HEARD OF THEM, but THEY DO EXIST, and it took me LONGER to get that cleared up, then a bad DAC ever did.....!!!!

 

Unfortunately OOIDA has already attempted to sue DAC, but lost the case. IIRC, the reason for the loss is because DAC only furnishes employment history from the company submitting the info. To be effective in suing the proper party would mean going after the perpetrator, the trucking company who submitted the info.

There are many clearinghouses for employment. Another one for truck drivers is called DriverFACTS. But yes, there are many more companies that have employment records on hand for companies than most people think.

 

It's good to hear. Now maybe drivers will stick up for themselves.

 

"They" (as in the company) didn't put anything on his DAC...believe it or not, from what has been put on mine (minor stuff) the fleet managers put it there, and possibly CSR's.

Yep...I'd say the guilty party is no longer with Maverick (I don't know that...just a guess)

 

Good for that driver.